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If you’re wondering what the Jane’s Addiction split and Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking “Leaves of Grass” have in common, allow rocker Dave Navarro to enlighten you.

An epigraph from “Leaves of Grass” sits comfortably alongside curse words in an ancient tongue.

The dramatizations are nicely filmed, if a little hokey, and the overall velvety tone is peppered with piquant details, like Hall communicating with the Russians in a code derived from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.”

Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across the United States.

One night, “Harlan was walking around the empty desks at the Patent Office when he found a marked-up copy of the 1860 version of ‘Leaves of Grass’ in Whitman’s desk,” Garrett Peck wrote in his book “Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.”